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1	Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants more books like this by Douglas W Tallamy, Rick Darke (Foreword by) add to wishlist With the accelerating pace of development and subsequent habitat destruction, the pressures on wildlife populations are greater than ever. But there is a surprisingly important and relatively simple step toward reversing this alarming trend: Everyone with access to a patch of earth can make a significant contribution to sustaining biodiversity. ... see all copies from £11.88! new only from £11.88!
2	Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens more books like this by Douglas W Tallamy add to wishlist With the accelerating pace of development and subsequent habitat disruption, the pressures on wildlife populations are greater than they have ever been in our nation's history. As Doug Tallamy has confirmed through extensive research, there is an unbreakable link between native plant species and native wildlife. When native plant species disappear ... see all copies from £13.23! new only from £16.94! \| first editions
3	Insect-Plant Biology more books like this by L M Schoonhoven add to wishlist Half of all insect species are dependent on living plant tissues, consuming about 10% of plant annual production in natural habitats and an even greater percentage in agricultural systems, despite sophisticated control measures. Plants possess defences that are effective against almost all herbivorous insect species. Host-plant specialization, ... see all copies from £37.37! new only from £37.37! \| first editions
4	Plant Kairomones in Insect Ecology and Control more books like this by Robert Lee Metcalf, Esther R Metcalf (Editor) add to wishlist The nature of the coevolutionary process that produced the interactions between plant kairomones and insect sensory organs suggests that kairomones can be employed for insect control in a variety of baits and traps. This book discusses the major theoretical approaches to the subject, as well as a number of specific applications in pest control. ... see all copies from £11.37! new only from £60.76! \| first editions
5	Pattern and Process in Host-Parasitoid Interactions more books like this by Hawkins add to wishlist How is the staggering biodiversity of the parasitoid insects maintained? This book explores patterns in host-parasitoid interactions, including parasitoid community richness, the importance of parasitoids as mortality factors, and their impact on host densities as determined by the outcomes of parasitoid introductions for biological control. It ... see all copies from £22.30! new only from £22.30! \| first editions
6	The Coevolutionary Process more books like this by John N Thompson add to wishlist In this text, Thompson advances a new conceptual approach to the evolution of species interactions - the geographic mosaic theory of coevolution. Thompson demonstrates how an integrated study of life histories, genetics and the geographic structure of populations yields a broader understanding of coevolution, or the development of reciprocal ... see all copies from £12.22! new only from £20.32! \| first editions
7	Insect Chemical Ecology an Evolutionary Approach more books like this by Bernard D Roitberg (Editor), Murray B Isman add to wishlist "Evolutionary Perspectives in Chemical Ecology" provides a comprehensive view of insect chemical ecology from an evolutionary perspective, showing how natural selection acts upon interacting organisms and how particular physical and biological properties of chemical compounds act as constraints upon which natural selection may operate. Individual ... see all copies from £73.15! new only from £73.15!
8	Phytochemical Diversity and Redundancy in Ecological Interactions more books like this by John T Romeo (Editor), James A Saunders (Editor), Pedro Barbosa (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from £75.01! new only from £78.44! \| first editions
9	Novartis Foundation Symposium 223 more books like this by Novartis, John A Pickett, Novartis Foundation Symposium add to wishlist Insect-Plant Interactions and Induced Plant Defence Chair: John A. Pickett 1999 This book examines the sophisticated mechanisms that plants use to defend themselves against attack by insects and pathogens, focusing on the networks of plant signalling pathways that underlie these defences. In response to herbivory, plants release a complex blend of ... see all copies from £21.52! new only from £101.74!
10	Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Insect-Plant Relationships more books like this by Erich Stc$dler (Editor), Martine Rowell-Rahier (Editor), Robert Baur (Editor) add to wishlist The reason why insect-plant relationships attract more and more attention has been given by Professor Schoonhoven in the introductory lecture to this symposium: 'The green blanket on the earth's surface with its myriads of insects has already revealed some of its complex workings, but contains many more facets which need to be discovered to ... see all copies from £141.09! new only from £141.09! \| first editions
11 view cover	Microbial Mediation of Plant-Herbivore Interactions more books like this by Pedro A Barbosa, Pedro Barosa, Vera A Krischik (Editor) add to wishlist Novel Aspects of Insect-Plant Interactions Edited by Pedro Barbosa and Deborah K. Letourneau Focusing on three trophic levels, this study widens the current understanding of the ecological interactions between plants, herbivores, and their parasitoids and predators. Emphasized are the mediating effects of plant-derived allelochemicals on those ... see all copies from £98.42! new only from £98.42!
12	Fungus-Insect Relationships more books like this by Professor Quentin Wheeler, Meredith Blackwell add to wishlist A significant addition to the field of fungus-insect relationships, this book presents an interesting array of approaches to the subject of evolutionary and ecological associations of insects and fungi, written by both mycologists and entomologists. The editors have preserved a reasonable balance between theoretical articles, reviews, and those ... see all copies from £13.82! new only from £13.82! \| first editions
13 view cover	Novel Aspects of Insect-Plant Interactions more books like this by Pedro A Barbosa (Editor), Deborah K Letourneau (Editor) add to wishlist The first efforts to explore ecological interactions between insects and plants across several trophic levels are presented in this book, with special focus on mediation of complex interactions by plant allelochemicals. The first section looks at effects of plant allelochemicals on predator/prey and host/parasitoid interactions. The second section ... see all copies from £30.22! new only from £198.32! \| first editions
14 view cover	Proceedings of the Eleventh International Symposium on Insect-Plant Relationships more books like this by Christian KJ\Sgmaelig R (Editor), Louis M Schoonhoven (Editor), Jens Kvist Nielsen (Editor) add to wishlist Large parts of the continents are covered by a green blanket of living plants. From an insect's point of view this green blanket is not uniform, but consists of a mosaic of resources of variable quality and with various levels of noxious secondary compounds. It is the challenge of phytophagous insects to orientate and reproduce within this mosaic ... see all copies from £71.82! new only from £71.82! \| first editions
15 view cover	The Ecology and Evolution of Ant-Plant Interactions more books like this by Victor Rico-Gray, Paulo S Oliveira add to wishlist Ants are probably the most dominant insect group on Earth, representing ten to fifteen percent of animal biomass in terrestrial ecosystems. Flowering plants, meanwhile, owe their evolutionary success to an array of interspecific interactions - such as pollination, seed dispersal, and herbivory - that have helped to shape their great diversity. ... see all copies from £19.57! new only from £19.57!
16 view cover	Honey Bees and Flowers more books like this by Lola M Schaefer add to wishlist Simple text and photographs introduce the role of flowers in the lives of honeybees. see all copies from £6.11! new only from £11.46!
17 view cover	Insect Herbivore-Host Dynamics: Tree-Dwelling Aphids more books like this by A F G Dixon add to wishlist Literature currently available on the population dynamics of insect herbivores tends to favour top-down regulation of abundance by the action of natural enemies. This unique volume challenges this paradigm and shows that tree dwelling species of aphids, through competition for resources, regulate their own abundance. The biology of tree dwelling ... see all copies from £61.74! new only from £61.74!
18	Insects and Plants: Parallel Evolution & Adaptations, Second Edition more books like this by Pierre Jolivet, Ross H Arnett (Editor), Pierre P Grasse (Designer) add to wishlist Insects and plants, whether or not they coevolved, have intimate interrelationships. This book concisely yet thoroughly describes these phenomena. In one chapter the salient facts known about carnivorous plants are described. In another, ant and plant relationships are summarized as an introduction to this vast subject. Pollination, of great ... see all copies from £31.73! new only from £55.47!
19 view cover	Seed Dispersal by Ants in a Deciduous Forest Ecosystem: Mechanisms, Strategies, Adaptations more books like this by Elena Gorb, S Gorb add to wishlist Countless ants transport and deposit seeds and thereby influence the survival, death, and evolution of many plant species. In higher plants, seed dispersal by ants (myrmecochory) has appeared many times independently in different lineages. More than 3000 plant species are known to utilize ant assistance to be planted. Myrmecochory is a very ... see all copies from £101.38! new only from £101.38!
20 view cover	Insect-Plant Relationships more books like this by Stephen J Simpson (Editor), A Jennifer Mordue (Editor), Jim Hardie (Editor) add to wishlist Over the past 40 years, the SIP meetings have played a central role in the development of the field of insect-plant relationships, providing both a show-case for current research as well as a forum for the airing and development of influential new ideas. The 10th symposium, held 4-10 July 1998, in Oxford, followed that tradition. The present ... see all copies from £90.35! new only from £90.35!
21 view cover	Coevolution of Animals and Plants: Symposium V, First International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology, Boulder, Colorado more books like this by Lawrence E. Gilbert (Editor), Peter H. Raven (Editor) add to wishlist It has long been recognized that plants and animals profoundly affect one another's characteristics during the course of evolution. Coevolution represents a point of view about the structure of nature that has just begun to be fully explored. The papers presented here herald its emergence as an important and promising field of biological research ... see all copies from £4.18! first editions
22 view cover	Interrelationship between insects and plants more books like this by Pierre Jolivet add to wishlist One of the world's most insightful writers on the subject brings together an array of important and readable information on the ways in which insects and plants coexist in nature. "Interrelationship Between Insects and Plants" is a rare and expansive look at the intertwining of these two vastly different species. Its aim is to summarize in a ... see all copies from £42.74! new only from £67.60!
23	The Milkweed and Its World of Animals more books like this by ADA Graham add to wishlist An introduction to ecology, focusing on a single very common wild plant and its qualities which affect a variety of animals that come in contact with it. see all copies from £6.11! first editions
24 view cover	Host-Plant Selection by Phytophagous Insects more books like this by Bernays, Chapman 1930- add to wishlist This is the first book that focuses on the behavior of host-plant selection by plant-feeding insects. It describes the patterns of host use, the chemical features of plants that determine host selection, the physiology of insect sensory systems, and the insect behaviors, with an emphasis on mechanisms. The book also discusses genetic variability ... see all copies from £45.35! new only from £50.64!
25	Plants and Insects Together more books like this by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent add to wishlist Describes the many varied relationships between plants and insects. see all copies from £6.11! first editions

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